Legal Opinion
Hassay v. Mayor of Ocean City
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided July 3, 2013No. Civil Action No. ELH-13-1076PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLEN LIPTON HOLLANDER, District Judge.
During every summer from 1995 until June 2012, plaintiff William F. Hassay, Jr., an accomplished violinist, performed as a “street artist” on the beachfront boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland. On June 22, 2012, Hassay was warned by an Ocean City police officer that the volume of his music violated an Ocean City noise ordinance enacted in February 2012, which prohibited, inter alia, the audibility of musical instruments and amplified sound at a distance of greater than thirty feet. See Ocean City’s “Code of Ordinances” (“City Code”), Part…
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